Friday, May 21, 2004
AUTHOR Dempsey, Diana.
TITLE Catch the moon / Diana Dempsey.
IMPRINT New York : Signet, c2003.
DESCRIPT 399 p. ; 18 cm.
SUBJECT Legal stories.
Monterey (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Love stories.
Mystery fiction.
ISBN 0451209451.
Library Journal Review
Beautiful, brainy, and the best prosecutor in the Monterey County D.A.'s office, Alicia Maldonado has had to fight prejudice and jealousy every step of the way. But when wealthy and well-connected gubernatorial candidate Daniel Gaines is murdered in his posh Carmel home, and Alicia ends up on the career-making case, the stage is set for a politically charged battle that ripples into the rarified reaches of elite Monterey society and surprises even the fiercely competitive Alicia with its viciousness. Handsome national TV reporter Milo Pappas, who has designs on the wary Alicia, adds romantic sizzle, while a politically ambitious D.A., a resentful network executive, and a spoiled, vindictive woman add their own brands of malevolent mischief. Skillfully plotted and filled with realistic detail, this fast-paced story deftly interweaves romance, murder, and ambition with issues of social status and trust. Dempsey's Falling Star was a 2003 RITA finalist for Best First Book. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
TITLE Catch the moon / Diana Dempsey.
IMPRINT New York : Signet, c2003.
DESCRIPT 399 p. ; 18 cm.
SUBJECT Legal stories.
Monterey (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Love stories.
Mystery fiction.
ISBN 0451209451.
Library Journal Review
Beautiful, brainy, and the best prosecutor in the Monterey County D.A.'s office, Alicia Maldonado has had to fight prejudice and jealousy every step of the way. But when wealthy and well-connected gubernatorial candidate Daniel Gaines is murdered in his posh Carmel home, and Alicia ends up on the career-making case, the stage is set for a politically charged battle that ripples into the rarified reaches of elite Monterey society and surprises even the fiercely competitive Alicia with its viciousness. Handsome national TV reporter Milo Pappas, who has designs on the wary Alicia, adds romantic sizzle, while a politically ambitious D.A., a resentful network executive, and a spoiled, vindictive woman add their own brands of malevolent mischief. Skillfully plotted and filled with realistic detail, this fast-paced story deftly interweaves romance, murder, and ambition with issues of social status and trust. Dempsey's Falling Star was a 2003 RITA finalist for Best First Book. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sunday, May 16, 2004
AUTHOR Davis, Lindsey.
TITLE The course of honour [sound recording] / by Lindsey Davis.
EDITION Unabridged.
IMPRINT Rothley, Leics. [Leicestershire, England] : W.F. Howes ; Prince
Frederick, Md. : distributed by Recorded Books, p2000.
DESCRIPT 11 sound discs (ca. 12 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
FORMAT CD.
NOTE In container (17 cm.)
Clipper Audio.
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking."--Container.
Narrated by Diana Bishop.
SUMMARY Ancient Rome's most turbulent period is recreated in this story
of the Emperor Vespasian and his mistress, Caenis, a freed
slave. As their forbidden romance blossoms, she is embroiled in
political intrigue, while he embarks on a glorious career.
NOTE Compact discs.
SUBJECT Vespasian, Emperor of Rome, 9-79 -- Fiction.
Women slaves -- Rome -- Fiction.
Rome -- History -- Vespasian, 69-79 -- Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Historical fiction -- 2000.
Romantic suspense fiction -- 2000.
Biographical fiction -- 2000.
Books on CD.
ALT AUTHOR Bishop, Diana.
ADD TITLE Course of honor.
ISBN 1841971685.
MUSIC # C1286 Clipper Audio.
review from Publishers Weekly
The author of the popular Marcus Didius Falco mystery series reaches again into the fertile bone pile of ancient Roman history, this time to fashion an unforgettable character out of a little-known woman of the first century A.D. Caenis merits a single reference in the entry on Emperor Vespasian in the Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edition: "He then lived with an earlier mistress who had been a freed-woman of Tiberius' sister-in-law Antonia." The story is set against the backdrop of particularly turbulent years of the Roman Empire, the time of the most notorious emperors (Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero) and some of the most forgettable. In Davis's imagining, the sparks fly from the first accidental meeting when Caenis is a slave and a secretary in Antonia's household and Vespasian a young rustic from Reate visiting Rome. With meticulous detail and powerful drama, Davis chronicles Vespasian's remarkable rise to power and Caenis's equally compelling success in shaping her own future. As presented in this intricate braiding of character and action, fact and imagination, these two strong characters, bound by passionate and enduring love and parted often by what Vespasian bitterly refers to as the "cursus honorum," deserve to take their place in the pantheon of the world's great lovers.
TITLE The course of honour [sound recording] / by Lindsey Davis.
EDITION Unabridged.
IMPRINT Rothley, Leics. [Leicestershire, England] : W.F. Howes ; Prince
Frederick, Md. : distributed by Recorded Books, p2000.
DESCRIPT 11 sound discs (ca. 12 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
FORMAT CD.
NOTE In container (17 cm.)
Clipper Audio.
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking."--Container.
Narrated by Diana Bishop.
SUMMARY Ancient Rome's most turbulent period is recreated in this story
of the Emperor Vespasian and his mistress, Caenis, a freed
slave. As their forbidden romance blossoms, she is embroiled in
political intrigue, while he embarks on a glorious career.
NOTE Compact discs.
SUBJECT Vespasian, Emperor of Rome, 9-79 -- Fiction.
Women slaves -- Rome -- Fiction.
Rome -- History -- Vespasian, 69-79 -- Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Historical fiction -- 2000.
Romantic suspense fiction -- 2000.
Biographical fiction -- 2000.
Books on CD.
ALT AUTHOR Bishop, Diana.
ADD TITLE Course of honor.
ISBN 1841971685.
MUSIC # C1286 Clipper Audio.
review from Publishers Weekly
The author of the popular Marcus Didius Falco mystery series reaches again into the fertile bone pile of ancient Roman history, this time to fashion an unforgettable character out of a little-known woman of the first century A.D. Caenis merits a single reference in the entry on Emperor Vespasian in the Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edition: "He then lived with an earlier mistress who had been a freed-woman of Tiberius' sister-in-law Antonia." The story is set against the backdrop of particularly turbulent years of the Roman Empire, the time of the most notorious emperors (Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero) and some of the most forgettable. In Davis's imagining, the sparks fly from the first accidental meeting when Caenis is a slave and a secretary in Antonia's household and Vespasian a young rustic from Reate visiting Rome. With meticulous detail and powerful drama, Davis chronicles Vespasian's remarkable rise to power and Caenis's equally compelling success in shaping her own future. As presented in this intricate braiding of character and action, fact and imagination, these two strong characters, bound by passionate and enduring love and parted often by what Vespasian bitterly refers to as the "cursus honorum," deserve to take their place in the pantheon of the world's great lovers.
AUTHOR Joy, Dara.
TITLE Ritual of proof / by Dara Joy.
EDITION 1st ed.
IMPRINT New York : William Morrow, c2001.
DESCRIPT 340 p. ; 25 cm.
SUBJECT Feminism -- Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Love stories.
ISBN 0380978342.
review from Publishers Weekly
"It was a woman's world," Joy (High Intensity, etc.) states in her debut hardcover, and she's not making a metaphor. On the Forus moon revolving around the planet Arkeus, women have it all, especially women of noble birth. They govern through the House of She-Lords, own the property and are the sexual aggressors dividing men into pleasurers and name-bearers. Joy has left no gender-based stereotype unturned, except that men don't get pregnant however, thanks to the invention of a natal accelerator, gestation only takes three months. Set in a Regency-style past-future, the story pits noblewoman Marquelle Green Tamryn against aqua-eyed Jorland Reynard, the conventions of their society, and her lifelong nemesis, the evil Claudine D'anbere. Marquelle Tamryn can buy Jorland from his grandmother, command erotic magic from his perfect body and "fasten" him in a public ceremony but can she win his love? And when things get out of control, can he save her life? Arriving at the foregone conclusion is both more fun and more work than it should be. The eponymous ritual, during which a man's virginity is tested in public, ranks as libidinous high camp. But the pace is slowed by Joy's invented language, a tiresome amalgamation that sounds like a cross between Dr. Seuss and Klingon, in which Klees and Kloos prance over the landscape and sassbits eat lumpies for breakfast.
TITLE Ritual of proof / by Dara Joy.
EDITION 1st ed.
IMPRINT New York : William Morrow, c2001.
DESCRIPT 340 p. ; 25 cm.
SUBJECT Feminism -- Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Love stories.
ISBN 0380978342.
review from Publishers Weekly
"It was a woman's world," Joy (High Intensity, etc.) states in her debut hardcover, and she's not making a metaphor. On the Forus moon revolving around the planet Arkeus, women have it all, especially women of noble birth. They govern through the House of She-Lords, own the property and are the sexual aggressors dividing men into pleasurers and name-bearers. Joy has left no gender-based stereotype unturned, except that men don't get pregnant however, thanks to the invention of a natal accelerator, gestation only takes three months. Set in a Regency-style past-future, the story pits noblewoman Marquelle Green Tamryn against aqua-eyed Jorland Reynard, the conventions of their society, and her lifelong nemesis, the evil Claudine D'anbere. Marquelle Tamryn can buy Jorland from his grandmother, command erotic magic from his perfect body and "fasten" him in a public ceremony but can she win his love? And when things get out of control, can he save her life? Arriving at the foregone conclusion is both more fun and more work than it should be. The eponymous ritual, during which a man's virginity is tested in public, ranks as libidinous high camp. But the pace is slowed by Joy's invented language, a tiresome amalgamation that sounds like a cross between Dr. Seuss and Klingon, in which Klees and Kloos prance over the landscape and sassbits eat lumpies for breakfast.
